SCHREIER, PETER

Peter Schreier was born in Gauernitz, where his father was a cantor and organist. At the age of eight he joined the Kreuzchor in Dresden. After finishing his secondary school studies he took voice lessons privately in Leipzig, which were followed by courses in singing, conducting and choral direction in Dresden. He has been a soloist in the ensemble of the Dresen Opera since 1961. Following a guest contract with the Berlin State Opera he had his earliest successes abroad in Vienna, Saltzburg, New York and Milan. Since then he has given roughly 150 stage and concert appearances per year, focusing on the opera houses in Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich and Hamburg. Since 1970 Peter Schreier has appeared in public with increasing regularity as a conductor. As a singer of lieder he has acquired a repertoire of about 400 pieces by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf and Mendelssohn, among others. Today Schreier is considered one of the foremost lyric tenors in the world.

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BACH, J.S.: Chamber Music (Schrier, Rost, Pank, Capella Fidicinia)	C51069
Choral Music (100 Masterpieces)	C49565
Choral Music (Ave Maria Choruses) - BACH, J.S. / GOUNOD, C.-F. / MENDELSSOHN, Felix / SCHUBERT, F. / BRUCKNER, A. / PERGOLESI, G.B.	C10769
Choral Music (Sacred) - HANDEL, G.F. / MOZART, W.A. / HAYDN, F.J. / BEETHOVEN, L. van / BACH, J.S. / MENDELSSOHN, Felix / BRUCKNER, A.	C49333
CLASSIC MASTERWORKS - Franz Schubert	C49029
FAMOUS AUSTRIAN COMPOSERS - STRAUSS / MOZART, W.A. / SCHUBERT, F. / BEETHOVEN, L. van / HAYDN, F.J. / HAYDN, M. / ALBRECHTSBERGER, J.G.	C49370
GOETHE AND MUSIC, Vol. 2 - WOLF, H. / SCHUBERT, F. / MOZART, W.A. / BEETHOVEN, L. van / SCHUMANN, R. / BRAHMS. J. / LISZT, F. / MENDELSSOHN, Felix	C49271-9
HAYDN: Schopfung (Die) (NTSC)	100041
HAYDN: Schopfung (Die) (PAL)	100040
HAYDN: Schopfung (Die) (The Creation) (Kuhn) (NTSC)	DVWW-COCREA
MOZART, W.A.: Arias (Isokoski)	ODE1043-2
MOZART, W.A.: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 (Bavarian Radio Symphony, C. Davis) (NTSC)	100449
MOZART, W.A.: Zauberflote (Die) (The Magic Flute) (Salzburg Festival, 1982) (NTSC)	DVWW-CLOPMF
MOZART: Nozze di Figaro (Le) (NTSC)	100017
MOZART: Nozze di Figaro (Le) (PAL)	100002
MOZART: Zauberflote fur Kinder (Die) (Salzburg Festival, 1982) (NTSC)	DVWW-OPMFC
OPERA EXCLUSIVE - MOZART AT THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL (NTSC)	DVWW-GOLDBOX5
Orchestral Music - BACH, J.S. / MOZART, W.A. / BEETHOVEN, L. van / SIBELIUS, J. / RAITIO, V. (Idyll - Music for Daydreaming)	ODE1120-2
SCHUBERT, F.: Choral Music (Knothe)	Phoenix408
SCHUBERT, F.: Lieder (Elsner, Genz, Lika, Protschka, Schreier, Shirai)	C51174
SCHUBERT, F.: Mass No. 5 / Stabat Mater / Salve regina (Schreier)	ODE917-2
SCHUBERT, F.: Sacred Music (Creed, Knothe)	C71050
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 'Great' / Mass No. 6 in E flat major (NTSC)	2072108